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‘OR THIRTY YEARS Fritz had been
Earctaker of the Saake House ar the
Gity “Zoological: Pack, “Ile had taken the
Webs teeugh lekoice (and beteuiitecaea
desire, for all his-life he had felt an over~
powering hatred for serpents. While carty=
ing) out his regular duties’ he Kept his
hatred well under control, for'the trustees
would never have tolerated his sadistic
| ctuclry, but after hours, when the visiters
Were gone and che pork was closed
Fritz gave complete vent to his maniacal
impulses. Ie gave him infinice pleasuce to
“thrust hot pokers through the thin air slots
“and make the serpents, weithe in agooys
Sometimes Re sprayed pepper into their
‘eyes Oten he doused theie cages with
Bolling water. He was a tighelipped, wary
old man, nad for thiny years no one
Teamned of his crueley.
Then along came
almost. mystically beautiful gil.
Feit
hhad watched her stare at the snakes for
| hours every day, as if hypnotically fas-
“cinared, Finally, affer months of constant
attendance, Fritz had spoken to. her.
ike snakes?” he asked, ia his
high, cracked voice. Rima had leveled
Bes infinitely deep dank eyes and sailed.
‘Few people like snakes,!” she'd replied.
“Her manner had been strangely disarm-
“ing, and Fritz found himself admicting
| things he'd over told anyone before.
‘Yes, Ido hate them, and I'd gladly
| torture fo death every snake in the uni-
verse.” He had laughed, bis lips twisted
into acral leer. Rima had merely
missed her, and then forgot her completely.
But for some obscure reason, she had
Teapt jato his thoughts, when a magnifi-
cent cobra was. acquired by the 200,
donated under rather mysterious circum
stances. © After the cobra was placed in
Its cage, Fritz took a moment off to look
at it curl into a lazy mass. Immediately he
began thinking abtead..ro nightfall, when
hercould get at ie
‘The zee was elosda aad everytbion
silent when Fritz finished cleaning. up.
He snapped off the lights in the Saake
House and went to the cobra's cage,
carrying an oil Uanteca to illuminate the
eyes sparkled with evil
as he peered into the cage,
and thenahe «red pale with horort
Somehow, the cobra had escaped!
Inctandly, fealizing that he was in great
danger, Fritz sueaked for the carctaker's
room to get his: gun and call the police.
“But.dt's not possible!’ he thought
“That eage was closed! It's closed NOW!
How did ic get out?” ;
“RIMAD™ Fritz’s shout of amazenent |
the chair in the caretaket's: room,
been WAITING for you.
Fritz looked half-hypnotized into. the
giel’s glowing eyes, and a shiver of dread
passed over him. “"Wh-What do you want?”
he gasped. “How did you get in here?
Quick, answer ste oF Tlleee””
‘You'll WHAT?” Rima’s voice was
almost like a hiss. ‘Do you think ME as
helpless as the creatures you tortures.
me, @ SNAKE GODDESS???"
Feite staggered back, his heare pound
ing with terror. A ghastly transformation
was taking place before his bul
Rima’s form was MELTING... :
of writhing coils, and hes head was be-
coming: encrusted with the scaly horror of
serpents. ‘'No!”” he shricked. “"NOP” A
spitting hiss pursued him as he tied
<fentlenlly iovescape. | Saddeoly, bis eas
sre cut out from under him. Immensely
powerful coils lashed around his throat,
stopping his breath instancly. He fell over _
fon his back, stcuggling for air, and inthe
halflight of the oil lantem, he peered
into the unspeakably evil tyes of a cobra,
Buc they were also the cyes of RIMA,
alinting terior, ng hee coils tightened
coud his throne relentlessly
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